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Amoeblog posts marked with linda mccartney.New 'What's in My Bag?' Episode with Fashion Designer Stella McCartney<p>
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Before her <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2016/01/pst/recap-stella-mccartney-s-autumn-2016-presentation-at-amoeba-hollywood.html" target="_blank">star-studded fashion show at <strong>Amoeba Hollywood</strong></a> in January, <strong>Stella McCartney</strong> had a chance to do some record shopping and share her picks with us. Needless to say her Autumn 2016 preview was one of the biggest things to hit Amoeba since, well, her father, <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/paul-mccartney/artist/139139" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a>, played here.&nbsp;Being a daughter of music royalty, McCartney had some special insight into her picks, having known or met many of the artists personally, and she shares the poignancy of the albums to her and her family.</p>
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<img alt="Stella McCartney live at amoeba " src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Amoebite/stella-vinylart_sq.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 201px; margin: 4px; float: right;" />After graduating in 1995 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, Stella McCartney was soon appointed Creative Director of Parisian fashion house,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chloe.com/en/" target="_blank">Chloe</a>. In 2001 she launched her own business, <a href="http://www.stellamccartney.com/us" target="_blank">Stella McCartney</a>, in conjunction with Gucci Group. Having expanded her brand into perfume, organic skincare, lingerie, children&#39;s clothing, and active wear lines, McCartney now runs seventeen stores located all over the world. She has received awards from <em><a href="http://www.glamour.com/" target="_blank">Glamour</a></em>, <em><a href="http://www.elle.com/" target="_blank">Elle</a></em>, and the British Fashion Council, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2013, some 48 years after her father was appointed the same.</p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2016/03/amoeba-music/new-what-s-in-my-bag-episode-with-fashion-designer-stella-mccartney.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2016/03/amoeba-music/new-what-s-in-my-bag-episode-with-fashion-designer-stella-mccartney.html
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2016/03/amoeba-music/new-what-s-in-my-bag-episode-with-fashion-designer-stella-mccartney.htmlLinda McCartney's Somewhat Obscure Psychedelic Alien Invasion Hallucination <div style="text-align: center;"><img align="middle" alt="the oriental nightfish ian ames linda mccarntey paul wings psychedelic rock animation video pink floyd trippy nightmare childhood sexual adult content cartoon wtf" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Kelly/IanEmes.jpg" style="border: 8px solid white" width="500" /></div>
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In 1978 <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/254530/releases#/view-list/order-released/direction-desc/page-1">Linda McCartney</a></strong>, then a member of husband <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/139139/releases#/view-list/order-released/direction-desc/page-1">Paul</a>'s <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/141559/releases#/view-list/order-released/direction-desc/page-1"><strong>Wings</strong></a>, teamed up with British animator and director <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/495569/credits#/view-list/order-released/direction-desc/page-1">Ian Emes</a></strong>&nbsp;(known for his work with <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/music/artist/139312/releases">Pink Floyd</a></strong>) to create the hauntingly hypnotic cartoon short <strong><em>The Oriental Nightfish</em></strong> (so named after the Linda-penned composition it accompanies). The song features Linda's lead vocals as well as her electric piano and moog synth stylings with Wings filling in the gaps, providing a little extra sonic&nbsp;lift.</div>
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Trippy as all hell, in the best way, Ian Emes revealed to the <em>Birmingham Post </em>in 2010 just how this totally far out project achieved full realization:<br />
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<div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;">I got pissed off whisky and put the music on as loud as it would go, and lay on my back in the living room and let it wash over me. The whisky did indeed help, and I came up with this weird idea where alien forces enter this building where someone who looks like Linda McCartney plays a Gothic Expressionistic Wurlitzer. This blonde female is penetrated, got naked and inhabited by the alien force, then she's replicated, before becoming a comet that explodes. The film was a bit weird and scary and a little bit sexual. Yet it was later put on Paul McCartney's <em>Rupert The Bear</em> video for children. The kids who watched it years ago are now in their 20s, and they've set up an internet site called <em>The Oriental Nightfish Haunted My Childhood</em>. I guess it freaked them out and opened their imagination.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Though the aforementioned site seems doomed to internet obscurity (if it even exists), the track &quot;The Oriental Nightfish&quot; is available on the studio/compilation album <em>Wide Prairie</em> released in 1998 following Linda McCartney's death earlier that year. The video for &quot;The Oriental Nightfish&quot; was made available on the VHS release of <strong><em>Rupert and the Frog Song</em></strong><em> --</em>&nbsp;a 1984 animated film based on the comic strip character Rupert Bear, written and produced by Paul McCartney -- a questionable placement given the not-so-vague sexual content of this short. There are some &quot;import&quot; vinyl collections out there that feature the song, one such release being the aptly titled <em>Oriental Nightfish</em>.<br />
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Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:22:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2014/01/grow-sound-tree/linda-mccartney-s-somewhat-obscure-psychedelic-alien-invasion-hallucination-.htmlTOM SCHARPLING ON HIS PAUL McCARTNEY RAM ALBUM TRIBUTE<img align="left" style="border: 8px solid white;" alt="paul mccartney ram" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/149458.ram.jpg" /><br />
Everyone loves <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/content/beatles-remastered-amoeba.html"><strong>The Beatles,</strong></a> incuding radio DJ / comedian / televison writer <strong>Tom Scharpling</strong>, who has long favored <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/paul-mccartney/page1.html"><strong>Paul McCartney</strong></a> as his favorite of the Fab Four. Scharpling, who hosts the briilliant weekly <strong>WFMU</strong> 3 hour live radio program <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/BS"><strong><em>The Best&nbsp;Show on WFMU</em></strong></a>, considers McCartney's post&nbsp;Beatles, May 1971 release <em><strong>RAM&nbsp;</strong></em>(with wife <strong>Linda&nbsp;McCartney</strong>) to be one of the artists' finest works. <br />
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In fact, Scharpling was so into the album, which is often unfairly dismissed by critics, that he had the wonderful idea of producing a <em>RAM </em>covers tribute compilation, inviting his many musician friends to contribute to the project.The final product would be a special <a href="http://www.wfmu.org">WFMU</a> only release made out of love for McCartney, as well as for WFMU, as it helped raise funds&nbsp;(which it did very well) for the New Jersey radio station's annual fundraising pledge drive marathon earlier this year.&nbsp;<br />
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Renamed <em><strong>TOM</strong></em>, and with a cleverly altered cover, the new tribute <em>RAM</em> is a sincere track-by-track reinterpretation of the 38 year old release with such artists as&nbsp;<strong>Ted&nbsp;Leo, Death Cab for Cutie, Aimee Mann, Portastatic, Danielson, Dump</strong> (<strong>Yo La Tengo'</strong>s <strong>James McNew</strong>), <strong>Spider Bags, Black Hollies</strong>, and <strong>Stones Throws</strong>' <strong>James Pants</strong>, all pitching in their time and talent to help out the popular radio host and the non-profit independent radio station. <br />
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I recently caught up with Tom Scharpling, whose show really is <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/BS"><em><strong>The&nbsp;Best Show on&nbsp;WFMU</strong></em></a> and one I never miss! It airs every Tuesday 8pm to 11pm EST on WFMU. I talked with him about the concept for the album, the artists' attitudes towards McCartney, and also his reaction to the similarly themed <em>Ram on L.A</em>. album that was released around the same time as his <em>RAM</em> tribute.
<p><strong>Amoeblog:</strong> How did you first get the idea to do this <em>RAM</em> themed compilation?<br />
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Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2009/09/jamoeblog/tom-scharpling-on-his-paul-mccartney-ram-album-tribute.html